Peter Kenny
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The Toad and The Donkey
Just a quick update to say that I received a note from Geraint Jennings that his book with Jan Marquis ‘The Toad and the Donkey’ is now published. More information here. Here is an excellent poem in Channel Island French by Geraint, and its translation below. À ces sé La lueu du rêsèrveux blyînque blianche…
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Creating a brand that doesn’t lie or overpromise
Recently I have been asked to help create the branding and positioning for a new agency. I will not name them yet as I don’t want to jump the gun on their activities. But I do love the drilling down into what makes a business unique and then working out how this can be made…
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‘Wrong’ at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton 1st & 3rd March
Have finalised dates for these evenings at the Marlborough. Betty and Mark, with their pal Callum doing ‘Wrong’, which is my short farce involving a corpse, plus another wee piece I wrote recently called ‘A bite to eat’ which is mainly to do with zombies. Mark is writing some material too and it should be…
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The Selling of Wilf Gaudion’s Field
Interestingly, I’ve been sent a play by Jim Willis, called The Selling of Wilf Gaudion’s Field. Jim tells me it was performed at the Beau Sejour Theatre, as part of the Guernsey One Act play festival. Jim was born in Orkney to Irish parents, but has lived in Guernsey most of his life, and ran…
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Island Ink interview
Guerney’s Island Ink magazine edited by Gabi Nodes is a source of great encouragment for new writers on the island. Here is a short interview they did with me in the December edition. Can you tell us a bit about your background and how you started writing? I live in Brighton, but still think of…
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Success
Of course the trick to having a successful year is to decide what success looks like on your terms. For me to be successful this year I have sought a happy medium between business and other creative projects. It’s simple: if I neglect one, I don’t eat, if I neglect the other my head explodes.…
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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Listening to a podcast of the BBC Radio 4 programme In our time, hosted by the excellent Melvyn Bragg about Foxe’s book of Martyrs first published 1563. This is a book I’d only vaguely heard about. It contains illustrations of Christian martyrs in the act of being executed. My ears pricked up when one of…
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Guernsey Literary Festival May 2011
I’m really proud to have been invited to Guernsey’s first literary festival. I will be reading from A Guernsey Double with Richard Fleming. Also on Friday 13th May(surely a good omen) I will be running three sessions for younger readers around my children’s novel. There will be some splendid guests, and I will post more…
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Aids Memorial Concert December 1st 2010
Will be going along to the Aids Memorial Concert, at St Mary The Virgin Church in St James Street Brighton. Among others it features Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus, Hullabaloo Cumminity Quire, and the Rainbow Chorus. The Rainbow Chorus are premiering a song Matt Pollard and I wrote for the Chorus called ‘Found’. Can’t wait to…
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Guernsey: year zero
I was sent recently by Tony Gallienne an essay called Guernseyness: In search of a Guernsey Identity (written as A C Gallienne). It is a remarkably thoughtful and sometimes lyrical piece which struggles with the idea of Guernsey identity, and the loss of Guernésiais as the dominant language. I quote here from the essay, which…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 